Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

My 2021 Year In Books 2021 saw a lot of reading and thinking and - mostly, except towards the end - not a lot of new tech. However, like…

Some senior+ developer roles have a lot going on. In my work I had many inputs happening concurrently: meetings, Slack messages, email, and…

Intro For a good sized microservice herd it’s important to know how these services relate to each other. How much internal traffic does X…

I made a video about how gtoolkit’s Wardley Map functionality works. Check it out, on Youtube: Link

Intro Ansible is a configuration management, multi-machine task running, DevOps automating declarative devops tool. I’ve used it for things…

Intro In my earlier software projects and planes of growth I posited that software projects have five steps of growth: foundations, testing…

I draw a lot of diagrams at work. What makes it kind of worse is that now a days I’m very cross-platform: while I still enjoy the power duo…

In grooming and backlog refinement in software we find ourselves breaking functionality into epics, which then have many stories, and - from…

A few days of vacation for me usually means a time to relax, recharge a bit, do things with the family, catch up on TODO items, and play…

Introduction We’re all familiar with the idea of technical debt in software, where the velocity of development is hampered by code not being…